Thank you for answering I appreciate that a lot. I do understand better, the steem power is infact very important and it is the foundation to a better reputation. I still don't understand how my rewards could go down and how a post can be closed down due to bad rating while having many upvotes. I suppose many of us are still early adopters and need to find their best content to provide in other words what people will find interesting and valuable, the more attention the more votes. Hope steemit goes well for you
Cheers
Rose.
Regarding posts that have a lot of votes, but are hidden:
If you see posts, that you think are junk or spam then you can disagree by down-voating/flagging the post. Just like someone with a lot of Steem can add a huge reward to a post with 1 vote, that same power can be used to flag instead. Steemit.com chooses to hide posts that have low ratings as a spam and copyright protection measure. This doesn't necessarily mean that other sites based on Steem will hide it as well and with a bit of time you can technically set up your own Steem interface that for example would not hide flagged posts of certain people you want to whitelist. That's why it's "uncensorable" once a post is on the blockchain it "can't" be completely deleted. And the Steemit.com website is also open source, so you can copy it and make your version do whatever you like.
That's great information. Thank you
Cheers
You're very welcome! Don't hesitate to ask more.
Thanks :) in fact I am wondering about this: What happens when say you upvote your own posts? Does that count same as other people's vote if so why when you try to remove the upvote it says reset curation for this post what does that mean?
Yes, your vote can count towards your own posts or comments just like they would on anyone else's. The "reset curation rewards" only means that if you remove your vote then you are also removing the rewards that your vote would have given that post.
Oh great. I thought that changed the post state to less valuable. Thanks :)